okay so the Roadblock is first? but why take a cab from the detour? It's not that far? unless they were told to? Nice picture of the ram and giraffe's Boingo!

ETA: oh DUH, not sure what the other Detour option is so never mind ^^^

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Ah, the spirit of the holidays. Frosty the snowman, the Christmas tree, and a baby giraffe. I suspect this long tradition of the Christmas giraffe is what prompted Toys-R-Us to use that as their mascot, Geoffry. This is just a little part of the large Christmas diorama in the athletic park directly behind Reunification Palace.

If you watch the extra clip we are led to believe that Ericka/Brian and Lance/Keri are just arriving at the Detour, well Lance and Keri anyway because we see Lance pulling the rope of a critter in the other clip, if so Zev and Justin already have a good lead right?

Lance and Keri are lost in the District 1 area ..I recognize the slim homes, not sure what parking lot they are at though but it has the Opera House colors for example

I think Montana may be just outside the park, at the corner of Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai and Huyền Tr‚n CŰng Chķa. Compare the wall in the background, the curved tree, the busted pavement, and the balustrade barely visible on the right (photo source).

I think Montana may be just outside the park, at the corner of Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai and Huyền Tr‚n CŰng Chķa. Compare the wall in the background, the curved tree, the busted pavement, and the balustrade barely visible on the right (photo source).

The giraffe was a mistake, we could have grabbed any animal but we grabbed the biggest tallest thing because it was closest to us. I saw on the clue that if a piece of your animal breaks you have to pick it up so you could get your balloon

They told us they work with homeless kids but I don't see that being true at all, they don't give off that warm let me help you out vibe.

As a parent its still difficult to accept him as an adult

With Mika I am"sexually pure", thats important to me because of my faith

Justin and Zev are our least favorite team, we've just never got warm vibes off of them. Lance says hes a lawyer which were really not sure if he is or not .. don't want to use the word meathead in the wrong since but I cannot picture Lance in a courtroom

I think one of the frustrating things that were starting to learn on the race is that both of us are tending to try to take the leadership role .. so its frustrating to me to not be able to convince him you know to keep going one block and ask for directions ..we'll just turn back

Now that I look at it more and more, the pictures in Posts 94 & 106 must be of the same Christmas diorama (as the date suggests), only different views. Maybe BVM will do a "Christmas in July" task in HCMC with the animals.